All posts tagged "women’s history"
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1.8KArts and LeisureThe Working Girls Vacation Society: Keeping the ‘Sin’ Out of ‘Single’
During the Gilded Age, hundreds of thousands of young women worked long hours for low pay in sweat shops and factories. Some...
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5.4KRhode IslandCharley Parkhurst, the Gold Rush Legend With a Secret Identity
On Dec. 18, 1879, a short, stocky rancher named Charley Parkhurst lay dying in his two-room cabin in Santa Cruz County, Calif.....
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5.9KCrime and ScandalBathsheba Spooner, Hanged for Murder—Or For Her Loyalist Father?
In March of 1778, a traveler brought strange news to Sandwich, Mass., about an unnatural murder in Brookfield. A woman had hired...
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4.6KArts and LeisureThe She-She-She Camps of the Great Depression
The Civilian Conservation Corps gave millions of young men a job and their families a lifeline with money they sent home every...
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9.5KMassachusettsThe Mercer Girls: When New England Girls Went West to Find Husbands
On Jan. 26, 1864, a young man from the Pacific Northwest gave a talk to unmarried girls in Lowell, Mass., about a...
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4.7KBusiness and LaborThe Working Girls of Boston: Immoral Floozies or Honest Toilers?
During the Gilded Age, the working girls of Boston had to contend not just with low pay but with reputations as immoral...
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